Austromenopon stammeri Timmermann, 1963

Gonza ́ Lez-Acun, Daniel A. & Palma, Ricardo L., 2021, An annotated catalogue of bird lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from Chile, Zootaxa 5077 (1), pp. 1-151 : 17

Austromenopon stammeri Timmermann, 1963

Austromenopon stammeri Timmermann, 1963: 421 , fig. 12.

Austromenopon stammeri Timmermann, 1963 ; Timmermann 1965: 175, fig. 111.

Austromenopon stammeri Timmermann, 1963 ; Price & Clay 1972: 496, figs 35–38.

Austromenopon stammeri Timmermann, 1963 ; Palma 2017: 52.

Holotype in NHML.

Type host: Pachyptila turtur (Kuhl, 1820) .

Chilean host: Pachyptila belcheri (Mathews, 1912) .

Other hosts: Halobaena caerulea (Gmelin, 1789) ; Pachyptila vittata (G. Forster, 1777) ; Pachyptila salvini salvini (Mathews, 1912) ; Pachyptila desolata (Gmelin, 1789) ; Pachyptila crassirostris crassirostris (Mathews, 1912) ; Pachyptila crassirostris pyramidalis Fleming, 1939 .

Chilean localities: Rinconada, Antofagasta: Region II; Puerto Montt: Region X; Isla Noir: Region XII.

Geographic distribution: Southern Hemisphere.

Chilean references: Price & Clay (1972); this catalogue.

Other significant references: Timmermann (1965); Palma (1996: 118); Price et al. (2003: 92); Price & Clay (1972); Pilgrim & Palma (1982: 10); Hänel & Palma (2007: 112, 121, 130); Palma (2010: 407); Palma (2017).

Remarks: Austromenopon stammeri is a prevalent and abundant species on all species and subspecies of prions (R.L. Palma, pers. observation). Antofagasta, Puerto Montt and Isla Noir are new localities for A. stammeri in Chile, based on specimens from Pachyptila belcheri held in MONZ and in NHML ( Shchedrina et al. 2017).